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Tariku Languages
The Lakes Plain languages are a family of Papuan languages, spoken in the Lakes Plain of Indonesian New Guinea. They are notable for being heavily tonal and for their lack of nasal consonants. Classification The Lakes Plain languages were tentatively grouped by Stephen Wurm with the Tor languages in his Trans–New Guinea proposal. Clouse (1997) rejected this connection to the Tor languages and grouped them with the Geelvink Bay languages. Malcolm Ross classifies the languages as an independent family, a position confirmed by Timothy Usher. Because of the apparent phonological similarities and sharing of stable basic words such as ‘louse’, William A. Foley speculates the potential likelihood of a distant relationship shared between the Skou and Lakes Plain families, but no formal proposals linking the two families have been made due to insufficient evidence. Additionally according to Foley, based on some lexical and phonological similarities, the Keuw language (currently ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lakes Plains
The Mamberamo Lakes Plains (Dutch Meervlakte, Malay ''dataran danau-danau'') are a large, flat low-lying area of the Mamberamo River basin in the Indonesian province Papua on the island of New Guinea. The plain is defined by the meandering tributaries of the Mamberamo, and includes hundreds of oxbow lakes. It is 300 kilometers long and about 50 kilometers wide, and is entirely enclosed by mountains apart from the outlet of the Mameramo.Ronald G. Petocz (1989) ''Conservation and Development in Irian Jaya'', p. 8 It is inhabited in the west, but the eastern lobe is largely uninhabited. Biology Biologically, the plains are covered by tropical lowland jungle. Much of that is ''Adina'' and ''Barringtonia spicata'' (see '' Barringtonia'') swamp forest, large areas of sago palm, and marsh vegetation with ''Echinochloa stagnina''. During the rainy season, large parts of the remaining forest is flooded for months at a time. These areas are populated with ''Timonius'', '' Dillenia'' or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |